If you must run from your past in a last-ditch effort to elude your fate, what better place to escape to than a sublime lighthouse on a Scottish island? Her three daughters and bare minimum essentials in tow, Liv Stay arrives on Lon Haven in 1998 to fulfill an artistic commission. The work is interesting, and the canvas even more so. Mr. Roberts has provided a cryptic diagram of symbols and seemingly hieroglyphic shapes to paint on the inside of his decrepit lighthouse, aptly named The Longing.
Flash forward to 2021. Liv’s daughter, Luna, receives a shocking call that one of her sisters has been found. The only remaining member of her family for more than twenty years, Luna is bewildered and elated to discover that one of her sisters is in fact alive. But things become strange when she realizes that her sister, Clover, hasn’t aged a day since 1998. What happened to Clover and the rest of the Stay women all those years ago? Will Luna remember her past to reconcile her present? What magical forces are afoot, and what kind of danger do they pose to her very existence? C.J. Cooke’s THE LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES follows Liv, Luna, and Saffy Stay as they weave this bewitching and magical tale together.
Although some readers may find the early pages of Cooke’s latest gothic novel a bit slow or the characters initially hard to connect with, those that continue reading will be transfixed on The Longing and its inhabitants until the very end! Cooke deftly weaves the three different characters’ perspectives into a coherent, well-told story, exploring the secrets that haunt them and the very real dangers that torment them and motivate them. If you gravitate toward novels that explore the reckoning of fact and folklore, the maternal duty to protect your own through any means necessary, and the power of forgiveness for mistakes that can last a day or a lifetime, you will find yourself reading and rereading THE LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES.
Cooke’s latest packs a heaping dose of biting reality paired with the perfect pinch of mysticism, witchcraft, and the mysterious saving grace of nature’s miracles. Readers that want to be transported to another time will wow at this tale of redemption. All the best elements of a gothic thriller are balanced in this story – grim terror and death, awe and pinch of romance, amazing architectural features, and a peek into past and present witch hunts and the island public’s perceptions about these. If you’re looking for a chillingly good read and new favorite novel, don’t delay in picking up C.J. Cooke’s THE LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES today!
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Upon the cliffs of a remote Scottish island, Lòn Haven, stands a lighthouse.
A lighthouse that has weathered more than storms.
Mysterious and terrible events have happened on this island. It started with a witch hunt. Now, centuries later, islanders are vanishing without explanation.
Coincidence? Or curse?
Liv Stay flees to the island with her three daughters, in search of a home. She doesn’t believe in witches, or dark omens, or hauntings. But within months, her daughter Luna will be the only one of them left.
Twenty years later, Luna is drawn back to the place her family vanished. As the last sister left, it’s up to her to find out the truth . . .
But what really happened at the lighthouse all those years ago?
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